Basin
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Basin is another term for sink or bowl.
Basin may also refer to:
- Wash basin, a sink or bowl to contain water for cleaning hands and other minor washing.
- Basin stand, an obsolete piece of furniture to hold a wash basin
- Toilet basin, an alternate name for a toilet bowl.
- Emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in convalescent settings
- Basin, a 5th-century king who was father to Basina of Thuringia
- Basin (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
- Basin (maritime), the area of a drydock which can be flooded and drained
- Basin of attraction (mathematics), an area of a nonlinear system with an attractor
- Canal basin, a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted canal traffic
- Pudding basin, a bowl in which raw pudding dough or batter is placed for cooking
Geology and landforms
Basin may also refer to some types of geological depressions:
- Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow
- Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
- Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
- Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent higher areas
- Structural basin (geology), rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat-lying strata
- Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
- Pull-apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults
- Tidal basin, an area that fills with water at high tide
- Tropical cyclone basins, oceans or areas of oceans used for classifying tropical cyclones
- Impact basin, a large impact crater
Place names
- Basin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
- Basin Reserve, New Zealand, a cricket ground in Wellington
- Bose Basin, southern China
- Carpathian Basin, Central Europe
- Great Artesian Basin, Australia, an artesian source of freshwater
- Kalahari Basin, a lowland in southern Africa
- Mirador Basin, Guatemala
- Montrose Basin, Scotland
- Petén Basin, Guatemala
- Tarim Basin (China), the endorheic basin of the Taklamakin Desert
- The Basin, New South Wales, Australia, a locality in northern Sydney
- The Basin, Victoria, Australia, a suburb in Melbourne
- United States
- Badwater Basin, California, encompasses the lowest point in North America
- Basin, Montana
- Basin, Wyoming, seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming
- Basin, California, an unincorporated community now named Huntington Lake, California
- Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, a club and guesthouse in Addison County
- Basin Mountain (New York), a summit of the Adirondack Park
- Columbia Basin, drainage basin of the Columbia River
- Great Basin, an endorheic basin in the western United States with a small area in Mexico
- Great Basin (Maine), a cirque basin in New England
- Great Divide Basin, an endorheic basin in Wyoming
- Harney Basin, a region in southeast Oregon
- Miners Basin, Utah, a ghost town
- San Luis Closed Basin, an endorheic basin in Colorado
- San Juan Basin, a structural basin primarily in New Mexico
- The Basin, a river pothole in Franconia Notch State Park
- Tidal Basin (District of Columbia), a reservoir between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel
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